PHOTOS: BILL GATES IN AGBADA - VISITS PRESIDENT JONATHAN

Bill Gates dressed in Agbada as he visits Nigeria

The world’s richest man Bill Gates is in Nigeria for the Stakeholders Meeting on Polio Eradication. The billionaire businessman and Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote were received at the State House in Abuja by President Jonathan.

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US billionaire Bill Gates on Monday vowed to help end the scourge of polio in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, still blighted by the debilitating disease.

Bill Gates and President Goodluck Jonathan


“This is my fourth visit to Nigeria and every year I come I see us get closer to our goal of polio eradication,” Gates said at a stakeholders’ forum on the issue.

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, attended the forum, as did President Goodluck Jonathan and other dignitaries and religious leaders including the supreme head of Muslims in Nigeria, the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’Ad Abubakar.

Aliko dangote, President Jonathan and Bill Gates

“I have decided to be in partnership with you and I will be excited when we reach this milestone and [there is] no more polio” in the country, Gates said.



Gates, wearing a traditional Nigerian flowing gown (boubou), said some parts of the country were slowing the overall progress made because they had failed to run campaigns and do follow-up work.

Bill Gates being decorated by Sultan of Sokoto at the Stakeholders Meeting on Polio in State House today

He urged a presidential task force working on polio eradication “to track these gaps”, urging greater interaction between campaigners.

Jonathan applauded the Microsoft founder “for his commitment to help Africa solve its health problems”.




“There is no reason we should not eradicate polio by 2014. Let me assure you that the federal government is totally committed to eradicating polio,” Jonathan said.

Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Nigeria had reduced by 50% the “Type A” polio virus, though 51 cases had recently been reported.





There is no cure for the disease, but there are highly effective vaccines to prevent it.